Editing Roseate tern (section)

===Food and feeding===
As with other ''Sterna'' terns, roseate tern feeds by plunge-diving for [[fish]], almost invariably from the sea; it is much more marine than allied terns, only rarely visiting freshwater lagoons on the coast to bathe and not fishing in fresh water. It usually dives directly, and not from the "stepped-hover" favoured by [[Arctic tern]]. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.

Unusual for a tern, the roseate tern shows some kleptoparasitic behaviour, stealing [[fish]] from other seabirds, at British colonies most often from [[Atlantic puffin|puffins]]. This habit greatly increases their food-collecting ability during bad weather when fish swim deeper, out of reach of plunge-diving terns, but still within reach of the deeper-diving Puffins.